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Dave Menne

Training Style

“I drill in the morning, then I do bag work. I’ll go home, get something to eat, go for a run. I come back and do a class and do live grappling.”

“Basically right now, I try to lift every day. Get some road work in. An hour or more of pad work. Half hour to forty five minutes of drilling. Try to get anywhere from 4 to 6 hours in. Then, if it goes above that, it’s a little less intensive. Shadow-boxing and some other things likes that. But, the strenuous stuff is the lifting, drills, and the padwork.”

More Information

“I wrestled for years. I wrecked my arm wrestling in college. I didn’t do anything for a year then I moved out to Santa Fe and I started doing some stick work and Muay Thai. I did a little grappling there. I went back to Minnesota and I started doing submission grappling and Muay Thai there. I was always good on the ground and I took off pretty quickly after I started training in submissions. I did a Muay Thai fight after about 3 months of training and I did a NHB fight about 6 months after. By nature I’m a pretty competitive person.”

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